Black Planet
Subtitle: Facing Race during an NBA Season
Contributors: Gerald Graff (Introduction)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: December 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780803293540
Subjects: Basketball; Sociological aspects; Basketball fans; Sports & Recreation; Sports; United States; Basketball - General; Sports & Recreation / Basketball; Discrimination & Racism; African American basketball players; Social conditions
First sentence: 11.5.94-My initial impression, as I stand next to the Seattle SuperSonics in the locker room an hour before the first game of the season, is that they're twelve utterly unconnected buildings; they convey no sense whatsoever that they're all part of a single city.